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- 30 May 1835: Alfred Austin, future poet laureate, “Banjo-Byron that twangs the strum-strum,” is born into rural splendour at Ashwood, 48 Headingley Lane, Leeds
- 11 July 1829: A Leeds Mercury subscriber asks why Christians do not seek to refute the claims of the Rev. Robert Taylor and Richard Carlile’s “infidel home missionary tour”
- 2 July 1829: An elderly postman and a one-legged Waterloo veteran set out in ironed clogs to walk from Hebden Bridge to Heptonstall during a thunderstorm
- 1 July 1947: An entire farm is moved by train from Ilkley to Rutland
- 10 August 1766: John Wesley crowd-counts 20,000 at Daw Green, Dewsbury
- 24 July 1766: Hats off for Jesus at Pateley Bridge
- 24 July 1761: Jonas Rushford (14) of Bradford tells a perhaps envious John Wesley how the Skipton magician Timothy Crowther helped him find a missing man
- 19 July 1761: John Wesley speaks at the first love-feast at Birstall
- 3 July 1761: John Wesley visits an unjustly bankrupted Yarm liquor smuggler in York Castle
- 24 June 1761: A cat joins John Wesley’s street congregation at Robin Hood’s Bay
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